[WikiEN-l] A sudden thought on the media coverage of flagged revisions

[Steve Bennett]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Ian Woollard<ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:
> That perennial media narrative is a "meme" you're fighting.

I think part of it is that it's much simpler than the rather subtle
truth. Meme: "Wikipedia had the goal of complete openness and anarchy,
but it failed and they came crawling back to more traditional
methods." Subtle truth: "Wikipedia used complete openness and anarchy
as an effective tool to jumpstart the creation of an encyclopaedia and
to build a community around it."

Steve